If Dr. Hudson was still president and the UH System would support the vision of a destination university, UHV would be better off. Because it takes FOREVER for the System to do anything and like Thinsalot says they are busy with Tier One, UHV is often left in the cold!
UHV is doing the best they can with what they have. They planned on 200 students and now they have around 300, which is great, but with success there is always growing pains.
SugarMagnolia - Of course UH has apartments, they have had residential students for awhile now and have had time to build them over the years. You can not compare their campus to UHV.

UHV needs to promote with the athlete student like VC did. Why so many from all sports not from the coastal bend but from houston, dallas and deyond. I personally hear parents who kids play for instance softball/baseball that would rather play here instead of hours away.
Yes, they would rather play at home NAIA and give up elsewhere even if its D2/3 schools. Its all politics here in victoria and will always be with 'boots on'.

Well, I think it is clear that way back some folks, who think they had all the answers, got the cart before the horse.

Either that, or they didn't have much faith in their recruiting program and didn't think actual freshman and sophomore students would be a problem.

I agree with thinksalot. You are still ejecting second-year students when, if I recall correctly, NOTHING was said about this initially when Jaguar Hall was being refurbished. I truly don't remember ANYTHING being said/written/implied that when the freshmen became sophomores, they would have to be displaced into apartments, of which Victoria has NOT ENOUGH and the ones they do have, particularly around the University area, are of poor quality. I would not want a relative or friend to live in ANY apartment around that area. I would indeed be upset if I were a parent of one of these students that are having to leave their dorms after being in them for only a year. No, make that less than a year, since they had to stay in HOTELS because the dorms weren't even ready on time. This has been the biggest fiasco I have witnessed in some time.

I know that when I was attending UH in Houston, although I was already an "older student" and had my own apartment, there was housing available for ALL levels of students. There were, in addition to dorms, apartments across the street, very nicely kept, named Cougar Place, and was expressly for Masters and higher level students. This was still part of UH, and supported/provided by UH.

No, this explanation just doesn't wash with me, either. Mr. Beran, either BUILD dorms that accomodate ALL students, or DON'T. But if UH-V chooses not to, then I would expect that the reputation of UH-V, and in turn, UH will suffer, and parents will think twice about sending their college-bound students to UH-V. This was not well-thought out at all, and it pains me to see the name of University of Houston become sullied because a little backwater town can't get it right. Particularly as a UH-V alumnus, it hits too close to home. I believed at first when UH-V said they were going into downward expansion, it was a good and important thing to do. Now, with a severe lack of planning evident, I may have to change my opinion.

Still sounds like the boot to me. I'm sorry Mr. Beran, but I think you're piloting a rudder-less ship. While the regents focus on promoting "tier one" status at home, UHV, UH Downtown and other outliers are foundering.